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# Agenda for January 9th, 2024 at 9:30 US Central (15:30 UTC)
- Q/A

### Attendees

- Matthew Cawood (TACC)
- Robert McLay (TACC)
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
- Lev Gorenstein (Globus, UChicago)
- Jeremy Siadal (Intel)

### Notes

- several questions/requests for changes by Jeremy (cfr. [issue #679](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/679))
	- enhancement for declaring module conflicts
		- let module A declare that it conflicts with any future module X that could get loaded
	- modulerc files
		- more dynamic
	- dealing with read-only NFS mounts with a stack of provided modules
		- no control over changing them
- including module extensions in output of `ml --terse avail` ([issue #667](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/667))
    - how to discriminate extensions from modules?
    - Matthew basically has it working, need to look into tests
- Honor `MODULES_AUTO_HANDLING` request ([issue #680](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/issues/680))
    - essentially transform a `prereq` into a `depends_on` under the hood
- Kenneth had some questions related to request in EasyBuild from Tmod developer on dropping condition when loading a module to prevent load storm guards
    - see [easybuild-framework PR #4373](https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/4373)
    - EasyBuild 5.0 is probably going to switch to using `depends_on` rather than `load` by default 
- some back and forth on Lmod-users mailing list w.r.t. enabling tracing in a module file
    - use case is unclear
- Alexandre's PR to build Debian package for Lmod ([PR #683](https://github.com/TACC/Lmod/pull/683))
- funky issue with zsh & FPATH (internal at TACC)
    - one some Linux distros, zsh version is in path to zsh command
    - problems occurs when building RPM with zsh 5.8 and then upgrading to zsh 5.9
    - only an issue with support for ksh is needed
    - FPATH is now changed when needed for different zsh versions

### Next meeting

- Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:30 UTC